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Microhoo: Wall Street gets antsy; Microsoft's big move: Wall Street is a big prediction market and traders are increasingly getting antsy about Microsoft's next move regarding Yahoo. Thus far, Microsoft has kept people guessing, but may reveal its plan on Wednesday. As we all know, Microsoft's negotiate or else deadline passed on Saturday and it...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wall, Wall Street, Corporate Governance, Construction, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Oracle closes BEA deal; Last 'logical' purchase?: Oracle said Tuesday that it closed its acquisition of BEA Systems following European Commission approval. In a statement, Oracle president Charles Phillips BEA will help the company's vision of a "a modern service-oriented architecture SOA infrastructure" and provide "a series of complementary and well-engineered middleware products." ...; Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Wall Street, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Construction, Middleware, Corporate Law, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Microsoft: Yahoo 'unrealistic'; Deadline stands; Quarter mixed: Update: Microsoft CFO Christopher Liddell said Thursday that Yahoo had "unrealistic expectations" about the price it could fetch and reiterated the software giant could walk away from the deal. Liddell's comments came on Microsoft's third quarter earnings conference call (for live coverage see News.com and Silicon Alley...; Tags: Revenue, Yahoo! Inc., Income, Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Wall Street, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Apple earnings cheat sheet: It's all about the Mac units: Apple reports its fiscal second quarter results Wednesday and the most important item driving the quarter will be Mac sales. All eyes will be on Mac units. Apple's Mac--despite a lot of focus on the iPhone--will make or break the quarter. Chances are pretty good that the...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Unit, Quarter, Apple Inc., Earnings, Chances, Wall Street, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Intel's quarter on target: The tech sector exhales: Update: Intel's first quarter results on Tuesday matched Wall Street's earnings estimates and topped revenue targets. Given the worries about Intel those results are good enough to chalk up as a win. By the numbers statement, Intel reported net income of $1.4 billion, or 25 cents a share,...; Tags: Revenue, Intel Corp., Wall Street, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-15

How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring: Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's prostitute scandal is all the big news here in New York, but the lesser known tale is how an information system--the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network--played a role in his downfall. On the surface, Spitzer's downfall is a New York...; Tags: Bank, Information System, Transaction, Financial, FBI, Data, Institution, Internal Revenue Service, Technology, Eliot Spitzer, Wall Street, FinCEN, CTR, Federal Government, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-11
No more talk of proprietary innovation please: Yahoo! (Picture from Yodel Anecdotal.) One of the most popular claims here by open source opponents is that proprietary companies do all the innovating. Those days are done. Spending your stock, your cash, and the change under your seat cushions for an operating competitor...; Tags: Innovation, Fact, Microsoft Corp., Wall Street, Leadership, Open Source, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-01
Sun acquires MySQL; Adds to its software stack: Updated: Sun Microsystems is taking the plunge into the database market with the purchase of open source database developer MySQL for $1 billion ($800 million in cash in exchange for all MySQL stock and assumption of approximately $200 million in options). With the move, announced Wednesday, Sun...; Tags: MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wall Street, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-01-16
IBM's fourth quarter well above targets: IBM was so happy with its fourth quarter results that it couldn't wait three days to report them. On Monday, IBM all resources released its preliminary fourth quarter results. The company is expected to release its official results on Thursday. Big Blue said it...; Tags: Revenue, Earnings, IBM Corp., Wall Street, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-01-14
For 2008, I am Google (and so can you): A key question for 2008 will be whether Google can execute, in a financial sense. Google is nearing the end of the big-time growth it can expect in Web ads. It needs new sources of revenue to keep its stock price high, and it has emphasized open...; Tags: Google Inc., Wall Street, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-12-20
Oracle: Strong second quarter; Outlook in line; BEA book closed: Oracle on Thursday reported fiscal second quarter net income of $1.3 billion, or 25 cents a share, on revenue of $5.3 billion, up 28 percent from a year ago. Excluding charges, Oracle earned 31 cents a share to handily top Wall Street estimates. According to Thomson Financial Oracle was...; Tags: Revenue, Microsoft Outlook, BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Wall Street, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-12-19
Yahoo's 100-day review: A lot of cards shown already: Yahoo's 100-day strategic review is now in its 84th day and when the details do emerge chances are the plan will be anticlimactic. Why? Yahoo's telegraphed its plans via a bevy of moves since CEO Jerry Yang mentioned his review that promised a "fresh look" at the company....; Tags: Card, Yahoo! Inc., Zimbra, Microsoft Corp., Wall Street, Social Networking, Mergers & Acquisitions, E-mail, Outsourcing, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Investment, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-10-08
Google bets billions to lock-in search dominance: If Google is to continue to be not only the darling of the search world, but the toast of Wall Street as well, it must withstand not only Yahoo and Microsoft head-on competitive search and search advertising initiatives, but up-start Goolge wannabes, to boot, claiming they are the next big thing...; Tags: Yahoo, Wall Street, Search Advertising, Search, Microsoft, Google, Copyright, Content, AdWords; Blog posts 2007-06-03
Open source revenues expected to soar -- but what of the savings?: Researcher IDC has published market-sizing figures calculating that revenue from open source-focused businesses totaled $1.8 billion in 2006. More impactful is the expected growth pattern, according to CBR:IDC has also predicted that the market will grow by a compound annual growth rate of 26% from 2006 to reach $5.8bn in...; Tags: Windows, Wall Street, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SaaS, Red Hat, Open Source, Microsoft Live, Microsoft, Linux, JBoss, IT Management, Intellectual Property, IBM, GPL, Google, Eclipse, Developer Tools, datacenters, Apache, .NET; Blog posts 2007-06-01
Silicon Valley move over? NYC bullish on next Internet wave: Insider Flash! Web 2.0 "prediction" heard today on the "street," the media capital of the world's streets, that is:Newspapers will be the largest video owners online, NOT broadcasters. What's more, when broadcast voice is on text, a new market will erupt.Who says and why?Sean Morgan, a serial Internet entrepreneur and...; Tags: Business Models, Google, VC, Venture Capital, Wall Street, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-05-23
MySpace wants Photobucket? Where is Google!: News Corp’s Fox Interactive Media FIM nears deal to buy Photobucket, is the latest M & A industry chatter/rumor, courtesy of an unidentified person, this time cited by The New York Times:Photobucket allows its users to store photos and videos and then easily drop them into their pages on prominent...; Tags: YouTube, Yahoo, Web 2.0, Wall Street, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, Search, Google Software Applications, Google; Blog posts 2007-05-08
Google to acquire NBC Universal? Why not!: Will John Battelle have to eat his Google words, AGAIN?In a typically Battellesque headline today, he responds to Bloomberg reports of calls for a General Electric spin-off of NBC Universal to the Googleplex by declaring: Google-NBC: Very dumb idea.How so? Battelle’s assessment: Analysts are saying that there is...; Tags: Wall Street, Video, Television, Radio, Profits, Internet Data, Google, Copyright, Content; Blog posts 2007-04-27
Google CEO meets Wall Street: Ah, the once a quarter time for Google to really shine!What can we expect from the Chief Googler later today after the bell, when he reports to Wall Street on Q1 2007 performance? More of the same?CEO Eric Schmidt:Q2 2006: Were very, very happy with having such a strong quarter....; Tags: Business Models, Wall Street, Google; Blog posts 2007-04-19
Google DoubleClick: The REAL big time payoff: Google wins big in its acquisition of DoubleClick. Immediate credibility and market share in display advertising market? YESCompetitive posturing to the disadvantage of prime rivals Microsoft and Yahoo. YES BUT, the two oft cited rationales for Google’s $3.1 billion investment are complementary to the core Google mission to...; Tags: Wall Street, ROI, AdWords, Search Advertising, Search, Google Ads, Google, ecommerce, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-04-18
Why is Google afraid to buy Clear Channel?: Google’s announcement of its radio ad sales brokerage agreement to resell less than 5% of number one radio station operator Clear Channel’s inventory came at a bad time, just days after Google declared its $3.1 billion all cash intended takeover of the Internet display business via DoubleClick.How so? While Google...; Tags: Wall Street, Video, Radio, Google, Advertising, YouTube, Venture Capital, VC, Microsoft; Blog posts 2007-04-17